Re: [arch] ~/.ICEauthority changed owner to root

Rohan Dhruva Wed, 15 Feb 2006 05:10:08 -0800

On fluxbox and xfce i have used kdesu successfully. I think even gksu would work. Someone in #kde once explained that sudo will reset the permissions of the above file to root since it is "ignorant" whereas {gk,kde}su knows about the X permissions.

Rohan.

On 2/15/06, bardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

2006/2/15, Rohan Dhruva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Never ever run X applications as root using "sudo". Always use "kdesu" if on
> kde, or "gksu" if on gnome.

What if I use neither (xfce, *box, enlightenment)?
And BTW, what's the risk in using it?

bardo

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